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ADJUSTABLE SAFETY CLOTHES LINESUEPOET.

No. 515,355. Patented Feb. 27, 1894.

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ROBERT MCNAB, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

ADJUSTABLE SAFETY CLOTH ES-LIN E SU PPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,355, dated February27, 1894.

Application iiled May 9, 1893. Serial No. 473,511. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT MONAB, a citizen of the United States,residing in Paterson, county of Passaic, and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful lmprovements in Adjustable SafetyClothes-Line Supports; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying'drawings, and to lettersof reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in clothesline supports, particularly that class in which the adjustable safetyarm, carrying the line carrying pulley, is secured outside .the windowand may be extended within the window into the room so that the clothesmay be hung upon the line without leaning out of the window.

It consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

My improvement is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which-Figure l is a perspective view of a device embodying my invention,showing the saine secured to t-he outside of the casing of the windowand the safety arm extending within the room. Fig. 2 is an enlarged topplan view Fig. 3 is an enlarged side View 0f the device, certainportions .thereof being broken away. Fig. 4 is a side view of a bracketcarrying a detachable pulley apd a pivoted hook, which pulley and hookare designed to guide the clothes line and, when the arm is dropped fromits elevated position to prevent it from swinging inward against thewindow pane. Fig.5, is an end view of the bracket carrying the linecarrying pulley and of the spring pin adapted to secure said bracket tothe adjustable arm. Fig. 6 is a side view of a chain and ring adapted tohold i the adjustable arm upward. Fig. 7 is an end view of the stay pinand its bracket which are adjustable on the adjustable arm. Fig. 8 is anend view of a bracket in which a threaded bolt is pivoted, which bolt isadapted to secure the arm pivoted to the outside of the window casingand prevent its swinging.

Fig. 9, isa top plan view of the bracket secured to the window sash, andadapted to receive the stay pin on the adjustable arm. Fig. 10 is a sideview of the bolt and annularly grooved nut secured to the adjustablearm. Figs. 11 and 12 are diagrammatic views illustrating certainportions of the clothes line when the safety arm is respectively in useand not in use. Fig. 13 is a top plan view of a modification of thedevice; Fig. 14. a side View of the same certain portions thereof beingbroken away. Fig. 14a is a side view of a modified form of detachablepulley bracket in which the hook is rigidly fastened to the arm near thepulley bracket. Fig. 15 is an end View of a modified form of stay pinand bracket, in which the stay pin is pivotally secured toits bracket.Fig. 16 is a top plan view, partly sectional, of a modification of theline carrying pulley bracket and of the pin securing the same to theadjustable arm, and Fig. 17 is a plan view of amodied form of thebracket securedto the window sash and designed to receive the stay pin.

In said drawings ci represents the window casing, to the outside ofwhich a bracket or frame b is secured at a height sufficient to allowthe adjustable arm hereinafter described to clear (when lowered) thesillof the window. To this frame b a supporting arm c is pivoted by apin d, so as to swing horizontally in said bracket b. This supportingarm c has a central rec-ess or slot c and is provided on its outer facewith a series of' notches or teeth c. Through this slot e extends thethreaded boltf terminating at one end in the elbow f', which is pivotedas at f2 to a bracket b', secured to the windowcasing at right angles tothe bracket b substantially as shown.

(Figs. 2 andS.) Upon this threaded boltf and outside of the notched facec of the arm c is placed a thumb nut g andwasher g and inside of the armc is placed a nut g2, all arranged so that said armo may be clampedbetween the washer g and nut g2 by thumb nut g to said bolt f. .Pivotednear the end of the supporting arm c at right angles thereto andapproximately parallel to the window casing a. is the adjustable arm it,constituting the adjustable support for the line carrying pulley.Attached to the end of said supporting arm c is a bracket c', carrying adetach- IOO `able pulley 'L' adapted to be secured within said bracket'i either at 2 or t3 (see Figs. 3 and 4). At the lower end of saidbracket 11 is also pivotally secured a hook j. Arranged on theadjustable arm 71J is a slide bracket 7c carrying at its upper end astay pin fm and adapted to be clamped at its lower end by means of thumbnut 7o and bolt 702 to the adjustable arm h (see Fig. 7). The stay pin mof this bracket 7c is adapted when the adjustable arm 7L is raised toenter the recess 'n' of a bracket n secured to the window sash a (seeFigs. 1'and 9). The adjustable arm h is also provided with a series ofperforations o, one of which is adapted to receive a bolt o16, whichconsists of a shank 014, and base o (see Fig. 10). The bolt is providedwith the annularly grooved. nut 015. On the adjustable arm h is alsoplaced the sliding bracket 05, adapted to be secured to said arm 7L by aspring pin o9, adapted to normally enter a hole or perforation o (seeFigs. 1 and 5). This sliding bracket o5 is provided with the projectionsor pulley bracket 0', Within which.

a pulley 08 is secured. This pulley oS carries the clothes line R (seeFigs. 11 and 12).

The spring pin o9 is surrounded by a case o, slotted as at ou, to exposethe spring 010, so that ice, dirt, &c., may be removed from the springto prevent clogging, as will be manifest. (See Fig. 5.) I

The arm h as shown in Fig. 1 is held in its raised position by means ofa strap 03 provided at its lower end with a ring 02, adapted to slipover the nut o15 of the bolt o16, and furnished with a perforated endadapted to slip on or over a hook o4 attached to the inside of thewindow casing a.

and having aring o2 adapted to slip over the nut 015, of bolt o16, asshown at Figs. 2, 6 and 13.

In Figs. 13 to 17 Ihave illustrated a device embodying a modified formof my invention. In this device the parts are substantially the same asthose described above with the following exceptions:` The bracket b isconnected to a hook shaped end f5 of the threaded bolt fby a chain]6instead of as previously described through an elbow pivoted to saidbracket b. The arm c to which this threaded bolt is secured is notslotted. The sliding bracket 7o on the arm 71. has the stay pin -mpivoted as at k6 to the upper end of said bracket instead of integraltherewith as heretofore described. There is also a spring 7c3 placedaround the bolt 7.42, all as shown in Fig. 15. The bracket n is providedwith an eye a9 (instead of a recess) to receive the pivoted stay pin m(see Figs. 13 and 17). The sliding bracket o5 carrying theline pulley 08is secured in the modifiedfform, to the adjustable arm 7L by a screw pino17 furnished at its head with a crank 018, as shown in Fig. 16. Thehookj2 is attached directly to the arm hinstead of to the pulley bracketz'. (Fig.

14a.) When the pulley i" is attached to the bracket projections 3, theupper projections i2 act as a guide for the rope to confine it to thesurface of said pulley 1l.

The operation is as follows: It is to be understood that the clothesline passes over a pulley attached to a pole in the yard or to anysupport outside the Window of the house.

After passingover this pulley the line passes into the house through thewindow and over the pulley o8 secured to the end of arm h. It nextpasses under the pulley a" secured to the end of the arm c and fromthence to the outside pulley. The clothes are hung on the lower strandof the rope, that is to say, thev strand below the arm 7@ (see Fig. l1).The

desired object in a clothes line support is that the pulleys o8, t" andthe outside pulley be arranged in the same plane. This is to allow theline to run freely and not bind on the edges of the pulleys and atthe'same time carries the strain of the line longitudi-A nally with thelarm. By my present invention I can align the pulleys very simply so thatthey will be in the same plane. The direction of the pulleys i and 0S isregulated by the support c and will align with the outdoor pulley byturning the arm 71. and support c around the pivot d in the bracket b,and then by screwing up the nuts on the bolt f the support c will besecured in a xed position, and the alignment of the pulleys remainpermanent. The bracket 'n may be Secured by screws or otherwise to thebottom rail of the window sash so that it will align with the pulleys iland o8 and to accommodate the opening or recess in said bracket n, thesliding bracket 7c may be moved backward or forward on the arm h untilthe stay pin m engages the bracket n as above described. The arm 7i,when the clothes are to be attached to the rope R, is elevated, turningabout the support c until it reaches its highest position being stoppedwhen the stay pin mv enters the bracket n on the window sash.

The arm 71. is held in its elevated position by slipping the ring o2 ofthe strap o3 or chain 031 over the nut 015, the other end of said strapbeing held by the hook 04 secured to the Window casing a. When the lowerstrand is removed from the hook ,j the line is ready for use. Should therope stretch or sag the pulley o8 and its bracket may be movedalong thearm 7L until the rope is sufficiently taut. When the clothes are allhung upon the rope or are removed therefrom, the lower strand of therope should be placed over the hook j and the arm dropped into avertical position so that the window may be closed if desired. When notin use the pulley bracket is slid up one or more holes on the arm h andthis will instantly slacken the rope and prevent it from breaking in wetweather. While in its normal vertical position it is unnecessary tofasten the free end of the arm 7L as the contracting strain of the ropeover the hook and pulleys is such that the arm cannot swing and IOO IIO

strike the window but will remain stationary. When the line extendsupward from the window to the outer support the detachable wheel shouldbe placed in the upper projections so that the line will pass under itin order that it may not come in contact with the window sash. Where theline extends downward from the window to the outer support the wheelshould be placed between the lower projections so that the line will runover it and the upper projection serve as a guide to keep the line inits place, it will thus be seen that in either case the wheel helps theline to run freely and that it acts as a guide to keep the rope where itbelongs and helps to align the rope with the outside pulley.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a bracket securedsto the outside of thewindowcasing, a supporting arm pivoted in said bracket and adapted to swinghorizontally therein, a main arm carrying the line carrying pulley andpivoted to the end of said supporting arm, a pulley bracket secured tothe free end of said supporting arm and provided with separate lugsdesigned to receive adetachable pulley wheel, with a hook pivoted at thelower end of said pulley bracket and depending therefrom, all arrangedso that said pulley wheel may be detached from one series of lugs andplaced in the other to align the line carrying pulley of the main armwith the outside pulley, and said hook is adapted to receive the clothesline when the main arm is dropped to prevent the arm from being throwninward by the line against the window, substantially as described.

2.` The combination of a main arm adapted to support an adjustableclothes line pulley, a bracket secured to the outside of the windowcasing, a supporting arm pivoted in said bracket and adapted to swinghorizontally therein, said main arm being pivotally secured to the endof said supporting arm, with a stay pin and bracket adjustably securedto said main arm, and sliding thereon, a bolt and nut secured to saidmain arm and with ahook secured to the inside of the window casing, aexible support extending from said hook to said bolt and adapted to holdsaid main arm in an elevated position and with a bracket secured to theWindow sash and adapted to receive the stay pin to steady the free endof the main arm from side movement, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the bracket b, a supporting arm c pivoted to swinghorizontally therein and having an outer notched face c', a bracket barranged at right angles to said bracket b, a threaded bolt f pivoted tosaid bracket b and means for clamping said supporting arm c to said boltf, a perforated arm h pivoted to the free end of said supporting arm cand adapted to swing at right angles. thereto, a sliding bracket o5carrying the line pulley o8 sliding on said arm h and adapted to besecured thereto by a pin entering the perforations of said arm h, a nuto15 secured to said arm, a sliding bracket lo adapted to be secured onsaid arm h and carryingastay pin m, a bracket n secured to the insidewindow sash and adapted to receive the stay pin m, and a strap forsecuring said arm h, through nut 015, in its horizontal position, to theinside of a window casing, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the bracket b, a supporting arm c pivoted to swinghorizontally therein and having an outer notched face c', a bracket barranged at right angles to the bracket b, a threaded bolt f pivoted tosaid bracket b and means for clamping said bolt f to said supporting armc, a perforated arm h pivoted to the free end of said supporting arm cand adapted to swing at right angles thereto, a sliding 'bracket o5carrying the line carrying pulley 08, sliding on said arm h andadaptedto be secured thereto by a pin, carried by said bracket, whichenters the perforations of said arm h, a nut 015, secured to said armh,.a sliding bracket lo adapted to be secured on said arm h and carryingthe stay pin m, a bracket n secured to the window sash and adapted toreceive the stay pin `m, withfa strap for securing said arm h, throughnut, 015, to the window casing in a horizontal position and a pulleybracket t' carrying a' Vdetachable pulley i and hook j, secured to theend of the supporting arm c, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand thisthe 26th day of April, 1893.

RoB'r. MCNAB.v

Witnesses:

WM. D. BELL, HENRY E. EVERDING.

